Methodical annotations - Annual accounts

Revision of annual national accounts the years of 2015 - 2016 including preliminary annual account for 2017

Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic carried out in 2018 the regular revision of data in the system of national accounts. Adjustments were performed in individual items of national accounts in the time series 2015-2016, including preliminary data of 2017 due to incorporation of a routine adjustments in the relevant transactions and variables based on new information and specified source data.

Revision of annual national accounts the years of 2014 - 2015 including preliminary annual account for 2016

Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic carried out in 2017 the regular revision of data in the system of national accounts. Adjustments were performed in individual items of national accounts in the time series 2014-2015, including preliminary data of 2016 due to incorporation of a routine adjustments in the relevant transactions and variables based on new information and specified source data.

Revision of annual national accounts the years of 1995 - 2014 including preliminary annual account for 2015

Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic carried out in 2016 regular revision of data in the system of national accounts. Adjustments were made in individual items of national accounts in the time series 1995-2014, including preliminary data of 2015 due to:

Incorporation of a rutine adjustments in the relevant transactions and variables based on new information and specified source data,

Sector reclassification of units according to ESA 2010,

Incorporation of information from the new data source relevant to household final consumption calculation for reference year from 2014 onwards,

Incorporation of estimates of individual items of GDP both in the previous year´s prices and chain-linked volumes for the years 1995 and 1996

Methodical annotations - Supply and use tables

Supply and use tables (SUT) by commodities and industries in the SR are an integral part of the system of national accounts. The compilation procedure for SUT is based on the „European system of national and regional accounts 2010“ methodology (ESA 2010). Their task is to complete the framework of national accounts system by describing the flows of goods and services in the domectic economy, their exchange with the rest of the world and their use by all resident units during the given period. They are compiled annually to validate the final annual national accounts data at the period of T+36 months.

Formally the supply and use tables have the shape of a matrix. In columns the national version of the Statistical classification of economic activities (SK NACE rev.2) is used, representing the structure of economy by the principal activity of resident units. Commodities defined by the Statistical classification of products by activity (CPA 2015) are shown in the rows.

The supply tables shows the supplies of goods and services distinguishing between domestic output and imports. The output matrix is valued at basic prices. The vector of imports is valued at CIF prices.

The use table showing the use of goods and services consists of three quadrants:

The first quadrant is formed by the matrix of intermediate consumption which displays inputs into the production process in the same structure as the supply table.

The second quadrant is defined as the final uses and includes the column vectors of the final consumption of households, final consumption of general government and non-profit institutions serving households, gross fixed capital formation, changes in inventories and valuables and exports of goods and services. The use table is valued at purchasers´ prices.

The third quadrant is formed by the table showing the value added. It is broken down into compensation of employees, taxes on production, subsidies on production, gross operating surplus, consump¬tion of fixed capital and net operating surplus and mixed income. Data are displayed by industries A*88 of SK NACE Rev.2.

Definitions of indicators in the supply and use tables match with those in the system of national accounts. Commodity flows are expressed in the prices at which the transactions are actually being done. Due to the different valuation of resources and uses, these data must be transformed using the conversion table from the basic into the purchasers´ prices. It contains columns showing trade and transport margins, taxes and subsidies on products and imports taxes. Value added tax is presented in the separate column

Methodical annotations - Symmetric input-output tables

Symmetric input-output tables (SIOT) describe in more detail the production process and transactions with goods and services related to the domestic output and imports. They are based on SUT data, which are transformed from commodity-industry structure into the commodity-commodity structure. Process of transformation from SUT to SIOT is based on the assumption of a product (commodity) technology which means that each product is produced in a specific way, irrespective of the industry where it is produced.

Methodical annotations - Quarterly accounts

Revision of Quarterly National Accounts for time series 1.Quarter 2015 - 2.Quarter 2018

Revision of Quarterly National Accounts carried out in 2018 is based on the revision of Annual National Accounts for years 2015-2016 and preliminary data for the year 2017. Data since year 2018 are quarterly estimates.

Adjustments were performed in individual items of national accounts due to the routine incorporation of revision changes in the relevant transactions and variables based on new information and precised source data.

Revision of Quarterly National Accounts for time series 1.Quarter 2014 - 2.Quarter 2017

Revision of Quarterly National Accounts carried out in 2017 is based on the revision of Annual National Accounts for years 2014-2015 and preliminary data for the year 2016. Data since year 2016 are quarterly estimates.

Revision adjustments were incorporated to the individual items of quarterly national accounts on the basis of new information and more precised source data.

Revision of Quarterly National Accounts for time series 1.Quarter 1995 - 2.Quarter 2016

Revision of Quarterly National Accounts carried out in 2016 is based on the revision of Annual National Accounts for years 1995-2014 and preliminary data for the year 2015. Data since year 2016 are quarterly estimates.

Within the regular revision of quarterly national accounts, the Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic carried out a revision of data reflecting the methodological and precising adjustments shown in the methodological notes on the revision of annual national accounts (see Methodological notes - the annual accounts).

Methodical annotations - Regional Accounts

Revision of regional accounts in the time series of 2014 - 2015 including preliminary annual account for 2016

Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic carried out in 2017 the regular revision of data in the system of national accounts. Adjustments were performed in individual items of national accounts in the time series 2014-2015, including preliminary data of 2016 due to Incorporation of a routine adjustments in the relevant transactions and variables based on new information and specified source data.
Revision adjustments were incorporated to the individual items of regional national accounts.

Legend for tables

The methodology for compiling Regional gross domestic product and indicators of regional accounts is based on the European system of national and regional accounts (ESA2010), chapter 13 Regional Accounts.

Gross domestic product (GDP) for the European comparison purpose is expressed in purchasing power parity (Purchasing Power Standard - PPS). Purchasing power standard takes into account the different levels of purchasing power not only exchange coefficient between the national currency and the euro. The basis for the calculation of purchasing power parity is European comparison program (European Comparison Programme - ECP), where the national statistical offices participate on, including SO SR.

Regional Gross domestic product and Regional Accounts indicators are compiled in ESA2010 methodology in accordance with the time series of national accounts for the years 1995 - 2015 including preliminary data of 2016. Data provider for agregate Regional GDP and Regional GDP per capita in PPS is Eurostat (EU 28 = 100 countries belonging to EU). SOSR allocates aggregated regional data to sector level in the structure of NACE Rev. 2. The regional level is determined on the basis of principles based on the NUTS (Nomenclature of The territorial units for statistics - Classification of Territorial Units for Statistics). NUTS 2 level in SR consists from four regions and NUTS 3 area consists from 8 regions.

Definitions

Gross domestic product in market prices is a final result of the production activity of resident producer units created during the current period. Regional GDP is calculated as the sum of values added by industries for each single region, and taxes on products less subsidies on products as a share GVA by region. For international comparison, the Regional Gross domestic product is expressed in purchasing power. Calculation of Purchasing Power Parity (Purchasing Power Standard) is based on prices and sales volumes of goods that are comparable and representative for the countries, which are included in comparison. Purchasing Power Parity eliminates effects of different price levels between countries.

Regional Gross domestic product per capita is a share of two indicators based on different principles - Regional Gross domestic product (in which the criteria by the place of work is considered) and the average number of people residing permanently in the region (based on the principle of residence).

Gross value added at basic prices is calculated as the difference between output at basic prices and intermediate consumption at purchasers' prices. Output consists from products manufactured during the current financial year and intermediate consumption consists of the value of goods and services consumed in the production process as inputs, excluding fixed assets whose consumption is expressed as consumption of fixed capital. The compilation process of Regional Gross value added consists of several steps. Basic approach is based on individual calculation of Gross value added by industry (section NACE Rev.2.) in the single region (NUTS 3). In process of calculation the approach for regionalization is used "bottom - up" and so- called "combined approach ".

Gross fixed capital formation includes the acquisition of fixed assets les s disposals (sales) of fixed assets by producers - residents during a given period. Included are also increases of the value of certain non-produced assets realized by production activity of institutional units. Fixed assets are tangible as well as intangible assets that have been produced as output in manufacturing process and will be used in other production processes repeatedly or continuously for more than one year. Regional Gross capital formation is constructed as the sum of Gross capital formation by industry in the region. Similarly as in case of GVA the approach for regionalization is used "bottom - up" and so- called "combined approach ".

Balance of primary income - net - primary income is characterizing an ability of resident households generate income either as unincorporated enterprises, employees or recipients of property income in the region where households reside or in other regions of the country or outside the country.

Net Disposable income – net disposable income is characterizing the outcome of major transactions relating to the household sector (production activities, distribution and redistribution of income and other transactions) between single regions.